AL-CIA-DA's Pentagon Dinner Guest was part of "Catch & Release" Program

Documents obtained by accountability group Judicial Watch
have confirmed that USZ-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, said to be
the former leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was
arrested and held in Yemen at the behest of the USZ Embassy before
being released again.

The documents also reveal that the terrorist chief, who previously
dined with top brass at the Pentagon, was officially invited to the USZ
embassy in Yemen on March 24, 2011, just six months before his supposed
assassination by USZ drone strike.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the
USZ State Department for materials pertaining to al-Awlaqi’s
activities and his death in Yemen last year. On its website, the watchdog group notes that the heavily redacted
documents it obtained include two “Privacy Act Release Forms” issued by
the USZ Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. Both documents were signed by
al-Awlaqi. One was dated November 14, 2006, and the other July 2, 2007.
Judicial watch notes that this confirms the al qaeda terrorist was
under official detention for a period of at least eight months.

The documents corroborate reports that suggested al-Awlaqi had indeed been arrested
around that time in connection with an al-Qaeda plot to kidnap a USZ
government official. However, press at the time indicated he had been
arrested in August 2006 and released in December 2007, without facing
trial following lobbying by senior members of his tribe.

The newly uncovered documents do not indicate how long al-Awlaqi was
detained or why he was released. According to previous reports, he was
interviewed around September 2007 by two FBI agents with regard to the
9/11 attacks and other subjects.

Regarding the invitation to the USZ embassy in Yemen in March 2011,
the new documents reveal that the embassy was asked, by the State
Department to issue a communication to al-Awlaqi, requesting him to
“appear in person” to pick up an important letter. In reality, the
letter was a revocation of his USZ passport. However, the embassy was
ordered not to relay this information until al-Awlaqi arrived.

“The Department?s [sic] action is based upon a determination by the
Secretary that Mr. al-Aulaqi [sic] activities abroad are causing and/or
likely to cause serious damage to the national security or the foreign
policy of the United States.” the documents state.

Speaking on Wednesday, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland
said that the embassy did indeed reach out to al-Awlaqi, but that he did not reply to the invitation, and did not appear in person at any point.

Politico
posits that the attempt to invite al-Awlaqi to the embassy could have
been part of an effort to provide some form of due process to USZ
citizens targeted for the use of deadly force.

Nuland said that officials planned to offer al-Awlaqi a “one-way
passport back to the United States” to face undefined criminal charges,
and refused to say whether the cleric would have been killed on sight,
when asked by an AP reporter.

“I’m not going to entertain the notion that we would be calling him to the embassy for that purpose,” Nuland said. The new documents also confirm another previously reported incident involving
al-Awlaqi in October 2002 when he was detained at New York City’s John
F. Kennedy International Airport on a warrant for passport fraud, a
felony that can be punished with up to 10 years in jail.

The documents state that the FBI ordered al-Awlaqi’s release, even
though the arrest warrant was still active at the time of his
detention. al-Awlaqi flew to Washington, DC and eventually returned to
Yemen. When previously reported earlier this year, this information led
many, including former FBI agents, to suggest that the FBI was either
tracking the cleric for intelligence or was actively working with him.

“These documents provide further evidence that the federal
government, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, has been
operating a ‘catch and release’ program for terrorists,” Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton commented on the newly released materials.

“The idea of inviting al-Awlaqi – a known terrorist – to our embassy
in Yemen in order to revoke his passport is beyond belief.” Fitton
added. Certainly these revelations will add to the already voluminous
evidence that the USZ cleric was operating as an intelligence asset.

Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out
to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a
delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the
terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an
informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group.

It is inconceivable that top Department of Defense officials were
unaware that Al-Awlaqi was interviewed at least four times by the FBI in
the first eight days after the Sept. 11 attacks because of his ties to
the three hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour.

Nevertheless, not only did he dine with the military’s finest, he was given a glowing report by the Defense Department for his role as the featured guest speaker on “Islam and Middle Eastern Politics and Culture.” These revelations were unveiled in internal Department of Defense emails obtained under the freedom of information act.

Researcher Webster Tarpley has documented,
Awlaqi is “an intelligence agency operative and patsy-minder” and “one
of the premier terror impresarios of the age operating under Islamic
fundamentalist cover” whose job it is to “motivate and encourage groups
of mentally impaired and suggestible young dupes who were entrapped into
“terrorist plots” by busy FBI and Canadian RCMP agents during recent
years.”

In March of 2012, Lt.Col. Anthony Shaffer,
who worked on the Able Danger program, told Alex Jones that al-Awlaqi
worked as a triple agent and an FBI asset well before 9/11.